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** "Mr Peeler's Butterflies" has Alexander [[spoiler: get his eyelids peeled off with a can opener, unable to close his eyes ever again as punishment for not sleeping when he should have.]]
** In "Jamie's School Dinners" there’s a brief shot when [[spoiler: the witch is stuffing him with fat and gristle that shows the mush leaking out from around his "eyes" right before he explodes.]]
** "Mr Peeler's Butterflies" has Alexander [[spoiler: get his eyelids peeled off with a can opener, unable to close his eyes ever again as punishment for not sleeping when he should have.]]
** In "Jamie's School Dinners" there’s a brief shot when [[spoiler: the witch is stuffing him with fat and gristle that shows the mush leaking out from around his "eyes" right before he explodes.]]
** "The Crystal Eye" features twins Fick and Finn; Fick is the selfish bratty twin and Finn the kindhearted and responsible one. Fick demands half of all of Finn’s Christmas gifts even after demanding (and receiving) gifts that are not to be shared with Finn, using a log-saw to cut them in two (except for the puppy). It’s so bad that [[spoiler: he throws a tantrum in the climax of the episode, this sealing his fate to be trapped in a mirror, simply because their mother asked Finn to take out the garbage and not him.]]
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* ImprobableInfantSurvival: A literal infant in ''Prince Noman''; nothing bad happens to him at the end due to him not being the AntiRoleModel subject of the episode's ostensible moral at all, and in fact, [[spoiler:the mutilation that ultimately ''does'' befall the story's decidedly adult AssholeVictims is what ends up ''curing'' Noman's ailment]].
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** A literal infant in ''Prince Noman''; nothing bad happens to him at the end due to him not being the AntiRoleModel subject of the episode's ostensible moral at all, and in fact, [[spoiler:the mutilation that ultimately ''does'' befall the story's decidedly adult AssholeVictims is what ends up ''curing'' Noman'sailment]].ailment]].
** Zigzagged in "Wolf Child" as the infant Moira is not taken by the baby-napping wolves, but [[spoiler: Garth, who is actually ten but is supernaturally regressed into a baby, ''is''.]]
** A literal infant in ''Prince Noman''; nothing bad happens to him at the end due to him not being the AntiRoleModel subject of the episode's ostensible moral at all, and in fact, [[spoiler:the mutilation that ultimately ''does'' befall the story's decidedly adult AssholeVictims is what ends up ''curing'' Noman's
** Zigzagged in "Wolf Child" as the infant Moira is not taken by the baby-napping wolves, but [[spoiler: Garth, who is actually ten but is supernaturally regressed into a baby, ''is''.]]
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* ToiletHumour: In "The Fruit Bat" The bat at the end poops on the students and [[BreakingTheFourthWall on the screen.]]
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* ToiletHumour: In "The Fruit Bat" The Bat," the bat at the end poops on the students and [[BreakingTheFourthWall on the screen.]]]] In addition, Cherry Stone is said to eat so little fruit that she is perpetually constipated.
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* TechnicalEuphemism: In "Prince Noman," the narration states that the peasant seamstress Leticia was "invited" to marry King Norman. The actual animation shows the king's men storming her home and dragging her to the castle kicking and screaming all the way to the altar.
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* AnAesop: [[Aesop/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids Too many to fit on this page.]]
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**Jamie from "Jamie's School Dinners" is continually fed various amounts of junk food, to the point he balloons into an enormous ball of fat, thus making him have to ride a stair chair lift.
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* TrappedAtTheDinnerTable: In "The Spaghetti Man", a boy named Timothy King is always throwing fits at the dinner table and refuses to eat his meals. One day Timothy's mother has finally enough of his bad behavior and refusing to eat his toast so she makes him stay at the dinner table until he has eaten it.
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** ''The New Nanny'': The second nanny the Frightfullybesys had hired was a spider who looks like a furry ball with eight legs.
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** "Well'ard Willard" acted like a bully to save his skin. [[spoiler:He is roasted alive after he steals the Sun,]] although the irony is thicker in the original book.
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** In "Well'ard Willard" Willard", the titular character acted like a bully charlatan to save prevent his skin.classmates from seeing him as a nerd. [[spoiler:He is roasted alive after he steals the Sun,]] although the irony is thicker in the original book.
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* AngryItemTapping: In "The Barber of Civil", Peregrine and Tanya are sent to the headmaster's office. The headmaster starts intimating the kids by tapping a cane in his hand. This scene is reused in the later episodes "Fat Boy with a Trumpet" and "It's Only a Game, Sport".
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* AngryItemTapping: In "The Barber of Civil", Peregrine and Tanya are sent to the headmaster's office. The headmaster starts intimating intimidating the kids by tapping a cane in his hand. This scene is reused in the later episodes "Fat Boy with a Trumpet" and "It's Only a Game, Sport".
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** Timothy in "The Spaghetti Man" avenged his mother by turning on the bathwater to make the house flood. In the book, he did this too, as well as break lightbulbs and throw all the food in the house into a bin bag to stuff behind his parents' bed. Also, he tried to get rid of his toast by throwing it in the bin in trying to get it mailed away.
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** Timothy in "The Spaghetti Man" avenged gets revenge on his mother by turning on the bathwater to make the house flood. In the book, he did this too, as well as break lightbulbs and throw all the food in the house into a bin bag to stuff and stuffed it behind his parents' bed. Also, he tried to get rid of his toast by throwing it in the bin in and trying to get it mailed away.
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* AlwaysLate: In "Tom Time", a boy named Tom is always late for everything like school and meal times. The reason why Tom is always late when he was a baby he accidentally sneezed his brain out into the sloth cage in the zoo. His mother mistaken a baby sloth for Tom's brain and puts it back in his head. One day a news report tells everybody that the world will explode and they have to go to a rocket ship by tomorrow with one catch, don't be late. Tom's parents had gotten themselves ready to evacuate but he overslept. He was forced to get ready while his parents went to the rocket. It was too late when Tom arrived at the shuttle station and was stranded on Earth as it explodes.
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* AngryItemTapping: In "The Barber of Civil", Peregrine and Tanya are sent to the headmaster's office. The headmaster starts intimating the kids by tapping a cane in his hand. This scene is reused in the later episodes "Fat Boy with a Trumpet" and "It's Only a Game, Sport".
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* BittersweetEnding: "Little Fingers" ends with Daffyd returned from his parents and his parents happy to have him back, the one downside being that the ransom wasn't paid until after Daffyd's kidnapper had lopped all of his fingers off.
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* BittersweetEnding: "Little Fingers" ends with Daffyd returned from his parents home and his parents happy to have him back, the one downside being that the ransom wasn't paid until after Daffyd's kidnapper had lopped all of his fingers off.
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** The show began to focus more on Flash Animation since the New year's Eve special "The Crystal Eye", making the characters move more like animatronic cutouts and often face only 2 directions, although traditional animation is retained for some scenes.
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** While the first 2 seasons often used gradient shading on the characters, Seasons 3 and later now very rarely uses shading on the characters.
** The show began tofocus more rely on Flash Animation since the New year's Eve special "The Crystal Eye", making the characters move more like animatronic cutouts and often face only 2 directions, although directions (although The aforementioned Special uses a 3D-looking face turn effect and "The Bugaboo Bear" has front faced models for some shots). However, traditional animation is retained for some scenes.
** The show began to
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* CaretakingIsFeminine: In "The New Nanny", Twistrum and Candy were getting a new nanny while their old one, Mrs. Mac, was fired because of a lie they told to their parents. They each get a nanny every day and all are female. The kids mistreat their new nannies until they get an alligator one.
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** The show began to focus more on Flash Animation since the New year's Eve special "The Crystal Eye", making the characters move more like animatronic cutouts and often face only 2 directions, although traditional animation is retained for some scenes.
** However, in seasons 7 & 8, the show's art style got a more simplistic vector style and much brighter lighting, making the show look less gloomy, the creep factor has also been toned down due to this.
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** In "The Crystal Eye", the main family were given more geometric looks than many other characters of the show.
** The show began to focus more on Flash Animation since the New year's Eve special "The Crystal Eye", making the characters move more like animatronic cutouts and often face only 2 directions, although traditional animation is retained for some scenes.
** However, in seasons 7 & 8, the show's art style got a more simplistic vector style and much brighter lighting, making the show look less gloomy, the creep factor has also been toned down due to this.
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* ToiletHumour: In "The Fruit Bat" The bat at the end poops on the students and [[BreakingTheFourthWall on the screen.]]
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* TooDumbToLive: Elizabeth in "The History Lesson" is a notable one, especially if she asked a ghost to help her with her exam. She's first seen trying to work out which monarchs have the [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen same name]] [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI as her]].
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* TooDumbToLive: Elizabeth in "The History Lesson" is a notable one, especially if she asked a ghost to help her with her exam. She's first seen trying to work out which monarchs have the [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethII same name]] [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI as her]].
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Spindleshanks stopped appearing after the fifth series pared down the stop-motion segments to Uncle Grizzly starting the projector and occasionally ending the stories with stock footage of Uncle Grizzyl laughing maniacally, while the seventh and eighth series completely discarded Uncle Grizzly and had the Night-Night Porter take his place to accommodate the retool changing its setting from the Squeam Screen theatre to the [=HotHell=] Darkness.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Spindleshanks stopped appearing after the fifth series pared down the stop-motion segments to Uncle Grizzly starting the projector and occasionally ending the stories with stock footage of Uncle Grizzyl Grizzly laughing maniacally, while the seventh and eighth series completely discarded Uncle Grizzly and had the Night-Night Porter take his place to accommodate the retool changing its setting from the Squeam Screen theatre to the [=HotHell=] Darkness.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Spindleshakes stopped appearing after the fifth series pared down the stop-motion segments to Uncle Grizzly starting the projector and occasionally ending the stories with stock footage of Uncle Grizzyl laughing maniacally, while the seventh and eighth series completely discarded Uncle Grizzly and had the Night-Night Porter take his place to accommodate the retool changing its setting from the Squeam Screen theatre to the [=HotHell=] Darkness.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Spindleshakes Spindleshanks stopped appearing after the fifth series pared down the stop-motion segments to Uncle Grizzly starting the projector and occasionally ending the stories with stock footage of Uncle Grizzyl laughing maniacally, while the seventh and eighth series completely discarded Uncle Grizzly and had the Night-Night Porter take his place to accommodate the retool changing its setting from the Squeam Screen theatre to the [=HotHell=] Darkness.
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** [[HorrorHost The Narrator's]] pet spider Spindleshakes is a purple ball with six legs, two hands, and two eyes.
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* DisproportionateRetributionDisproportionateRetribution: Occasionally, the character of the episode's story is subjected to a gruesome fate that they didn't really deserve. One example that stands out is "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping", where the titular characters get poisoned and ground into cider just for stealing a man's apples.
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* ExposedExtraterrestrials: "Nobby's Nightmare" has [[spoiler:Nobby's crush and her family]] turn out to be naturist aliens.
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* ReusedCharacterDesign: Every episode is guaranteed to have the same character models from another episode. Since the stories are set in different places, these recognisable faces in the background aren't playing the same people, but viewers have fun pointing out what other stories they've seen certain extras star in.
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* ReusedCharacterDesign: Every episode is guaranteed to have the same character models from another episode. Since This practice continued even during the stories are set in different places, these recognisable faces in the background aren't playing the same people, but viewers have fun pointing out what other stories they've seen certain extras star in.[=HotHell=] Darkness retool.
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* HorrorHost: Uncle Grizzly serves as the narrator in this horror anthology, each episode presented as a story he tells in his theater while abusing Spindleshanks in the wraparound segments. During the final two series, he is replaced by the Night Night porter.
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* HorrorHost: Uncle Grizzly serves as the narrator in this horror anthology, each episode presented as a story he tells in his theater while abusing Spindleshanks in the wraparound segments. During the final two series, he is replaced by the Night Night porter.Porter, who runs the [=HotHell=] Darkness (a HellHotel implied to actually be Hell itself) and reads the horror stories from a book containing entries on the naughty children he is holding prisoner.
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** Much of the kids.
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** Much of the kids.kids are subjected to horrific fates that they deserve as punishment for their rotten behaviour.
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* AbusiveParents: Chico's parents in "The Stickmen" see no problem in punishing their son for the most minor indiscretions by starving him and beating him. They can't even be bothered to remember his name.
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* AbusiveParents: Chico's parents in "The Stickmen" see no problem in punishing their son for the most minor indiscretions by starving him and beating him. They can't even be bothered to remember his name.name and actually attempted to trade him for a sandwich on the day he was born.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In "Nobby's Nightmare", Nobby is embarrassed by his parents being naturists.
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* RecursiveCanon: "The Bugaboo Bear" shows ''Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' playing on television in-universe.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Uncle Grizzly, particularly in the stories.
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